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Portsmouth Show confirmed for Saturday 28th September

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:25:00 GMT

RISC OS Open is very pleased to announce in conjunction with Innovation Warehouse Portsmouth that we will be hosting a RISC OS Show on Saturday 28th September 2013.

Doors will open to the public at 11am and the show will run until 5pm. Entry will be free of charge to both exhibitors and visitors. If you are interested in exhibiting at the show, even as a one man band, please get in touch here.

The location of the show will be 2nd Floor, Innovation Space Building, 1 Hampshire Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 2QF which is in a great central location in Portsmouth, with good transport links and parking in several nearby locations.

Full show details (including transport, parking, exhibitor information and so on) will follow in the next week. Please keep an eye on the RISC OS Open news pages for more updates

We look forward to seeing you all there!

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RISC OS 5.20 (stable) is now available

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:00:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the latest stable RISC OS ROM release, it incorporates a massive 625 changes for the Tungsten platform (used in the IYONIX pc from Castle Technology) and 654 changes for the OMAP3 platform (used in the ARMini from RComp).

For the first time the stable release includes the IOMD platform (used in Acorn’s Risc PC, A7000, and A7000+), and users can purchase this on physical ROMs for their computer too.

You can download RISC OS 5.20 free of charge from the ROOL downloads page and there are some brief upgrade instructions on this wiki page

This software is subject to continual improvement and work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.21! Using the convention of even numbers for stable editions and odd numbers for development editions, users can feedback any issues seen to make it into the next version.

Posted in Press release, New component | Tags armini, Castle, harddisc4, IYONIX, omap3, rcomp, tungsten | 18 comments

RISC OS 5.20 at the Midlands Show

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:57:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are very pleased to announce that we will be attending the Midlands RISC OS Show this Saturday, 13th July.

At the show this year we will unveil the latest stable release of RISC OS, version 5.20, which has well over 600 changes, improvements and bug fixes since the previous stable release.

RISC OS 5.20 is an even-numbered release so it has been verified as stable for the Castle Iyonix PC, the RComp ARMini and – for the first time ever with RISC OS 5, on Acorn-branded hardware such as the RiscPC and A7000.

There will be a lot of show exclusives so come along and take a look! If you want to buy any of these items online, more information will be following on the ROOL site next week.

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A new RISC OS show? It's free? I'm in!

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 29 May 2013 13:33:00 GMT

Update: please note we’re now looking at doing this proposed show in September.

Original article:

RISC OS Open have teamed up with Innovation Warehouse Portsmouth to create an unique opportunity to hold a free RISC OS show on Saturday 20th July 2013 in the heart of the great waterfront city of Portsmouth.

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